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The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom |OT|

Rex_DX

Gold Member
I’ve just completed my first great fairy quest! 90hrs in, I get so distracted, I was there early in game saw the fairy but got side track back then.

Anyways it’s nice that they build upon from BoTW. Just about every aspect is improved upon from BoTW! I didn’t think I would be this engross like I did with BoTW!
I just found the one by Dueling Peaks Stable. She said she wanted a to hear a drum beat ... but no quest popped. Do you have to do them in a specific order? The game seemed to be guiding me to the Woodlands Stable.
 
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Majukun

Member
I just found the one by Dueling Peaks Stable. She said she wanted a to hear a drum beat ... but no quest popped. Do you have to do them in a specific order? The game seemed to be guiding me to the Woodlands Stable.
yeah, you have to unlock them in a specific order
 

Alexios

Cores, shaders and BIOS oh my!
Yes, it's like BotW, you can continue on after.
So, you mean no, it's like BOTW, you just load a save before the boss to continue playing and seeing the rest of the game rather than have anything in the game world acknowledge big bad is defeated. Obviously it wouldn't nuke your saves to stop you. Kind of meh really but oh well, a minor issue.
 
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So, you mean no, it's like BOTW, you just load a save before the boss to continue playing and seeing the rest of the game rather than have anything in the game world acknowledge big bad is defeated. Obviously it wouldn't nuke your saves to stop you. Kind of meh really but oh well, a minor issue.
Well, yes. I mean you can "continue playing", with the starred save.
 
Finally got the Master Sword after completing the geoglyphs... and I just realized I didn't take a picture of it before pulling it from Zelda's head. Am I screwed?
 

Fools idol

Banned
The weapon degradation mechanic is absolutely fucking ass and I hate it.

I've just spent around 20 mins fighting the Mucktorok boss at the fish sky temple place only to have all my weapons break leaving him with 10% hp. Could do nothing but run around whilst useless ass Sidon and his shitty AI just missed hits over and over. I gave up and offed myself over the edge.

I really don't wanna go spend 45 mins farming for new weapons and shit to just do the fight over. Am I missing something?
 
In what way? Not having the sword in the Hyrule Compendium?

If that's what you're asking, don't worry about it. Just equip the sword and unequip any shields, then do a selfie with it on. The camera will highlight the sword and add it to the compendium after you snap the shot.
That's exactly what I meant; forgot about the selfies, thanks.
 
I couldnt see anything in the caves and I thought the game just had a messed up gamma setting. Turns out youre meant to hit the bloomseeds and not pick them up(unless you need them)
 
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Hardensoul

Member
I just found the one by Dueling Peaks Stable. She said she wanted a to hear a drum beat ... but no quest popped. Do you have to do them in a specific order? The game seemed to be guiding me to the Woodlands Stable.
I just did Woodland stables then there other quests opened up.
 

KU_

Member
The weapon degradation mechanic is absolutely fucking ass and I hate it.

I've just spent around 20 mins fighting the Mucktorok boss at the fish sky temple place only to have all my weapons break leaving him with 10% hp. Could do nothing but run around whilst useless ass Sidon and his shitty AI just missed hits over and over. I gave up and offed myself over the edge.

I really don't wanna go spend 45 mins farming for new weapons and shit to just do the fight over. Am I missing something?
Fuse the things enemies drop (horns, fangs etc) to your weapons. I just finished that temple last night, and didn’t have a single weapon break. I don’t even consider how I play to really be anything but organically exploring the over world, but it’s through defeating the larger enemy types and the things they drop that you can fuse to your weapons that help a lot.
 

Aldric

Member
The weapon degradation mechanic is absolutely fucking ass and I hate it.

I've just spent around 20 mins fighting the Mucktorok boss at the fish sky temple place only to have all my weapons break leaving him with 10% hp. Could do nothing but run around whilst useless ass Sidon and his shitty AI just missed hits over and over. I gave up and offed myself over the edge.

I really don't wanna go spend 45 mins farming for new weapons and shit to just do the fight over. Am I missing something?
How does this happen? By the time you reach the water temple you should have enough decent weapons to easily beat Mucktorok with maybe three weapons max breaking in the process. Did you use Fuse at all? Did you upgrade your inventory to carry more weapons? What about bows do you even use them, even throwable items can be a source of damage, just grab all the bomb flowers you can in caves and the depths as well as elemental fruits this way if you run out of weapons you can still do damage.
 

Fools idol

Banned
How does this happen? By the time you reach the water temple you should have enough decent weapons to easily beat Mucktorok with maybe three weapons max breaking in the process. Did you use Fuse at all? Did you upgrade your inventory to carry more weapons? What about bows do you even use them, even throwable items can be a source of damage, just grab all the bomb flowers you can in caves and the depths as well as elemental fruits this way if you run out of weapons you can still do damage.
how and where do I upgrade inventory!?
 

calistan

Member
how and where do I upgrade inventory!?
You find korok seeds and trade therm with a big fat korok thing back at the base.

Doesn't stop the weapon degradation being incredibly annoying though. The amount of times I've wanted to whip out a shield but I only have two-handed weapons left, or I needed a metal weapon to start a fire but I only had wooden ones. Just give me a small selection of weapons that I can upgrade, and have the upgrades break off if it's so important that weapons only last a few hits before exploding.
 

hemo memo

You can't die before your death
I’m putting all the power in me not to get back to this. Finished it at 110 hours and if I get back that could double but i’m not going to because I have a lot of games to catch up too. Maybe with the DLC later on.
 

Danjin44

The nicest person on this forum
I needed a metal weapon to start a fire
There lot of monster parts that has fire elements, which you don’t need Flint to start fire.

I got one from those long dragons flying around and another one from those 3 headed fire dragons.
 
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Fools idol

Banned
where is the place that the goats milk, tomatoes and butter ingrediants come from? a merchant mentionned it but I didnt take note
 

GymWolf

Member
Finished the game yesterday, last part was cool but the boss fight was a cakewalk like the others.

Time for some diablo 4.

Hopefully it gets a dlc with an hard mode so i can use the hundreds of monster parts i collected but never used.
 
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Wunray

Member
Just did the lightning temple and I kinda wish they took some of the shrines puzzles and put them in the dungeons. It's cool they have themes now and unique bosses but that really wasn't the problem with the Devine beast. I'd be OK with 50 shrines and bigger dungeons with more puzzles. I think elden ring handled that pretty well. Don't get me wrong, this is a good game but I don't see myself playing through it again after this playthrough.
 

Hardensoul

Member
how and where do I upgrade inventory!?
You find korok seeds and trade therm with a big fat korok thing back at the base.

Doesn't stop the weapon degradation being incredibly annoying though. The amount of times I've wanted to whip out a shield but I only have two-handed weapons left, or I needed a metal weapon to start a fire but I only had wooden ones. Just give me a small selection of weapons that I can upgrade, and have the upgrades break off if it's so important that weapons only last a few hits before exploding.
Unfortunately you need to find Hestu first before he goes to Lookout Tower. He’s found on side of the road if you follow Northwest road from Lookout Tower heading to Rito/Tabantha region.
 

Nico_D

Member
The fucking sages drive me insane. When thet are not blocking the view, especially in small corridors, they are running away and avoiding me. This is very non-Nintendo like but I think there was a mention that for many who worked on the game this was their first Zelda.

But the whole sage thing is the single worst design in otherwise great game. Well, the bosses suck - or they are just too unimaginative.
 

calistan

Member
The fucking sages drive me insane. When thet are not blocking the view, especially in small corridors, they are running away and avoiding me. This is very non-Nintendo like but I think there was a mention that for many who worked on the game this was their first Zelda.

But the whole sage thing is the single worst design in otherwise great game. Well, the bosses suck - or they are just too unimaginative.
So far I've only got the bird one, but I dismissed him as soon as I saw what he was going to do. No way I want that cretin following me around as a ghost with his useless wind power.
 

Interfectum

Member
So far I've only got the bird one, but I dismissed him as soon as I saw what he was going to do. No way I want that cretin following me around as a ghost with his useless wind power.
Ryan Reynolds Wtf GIF
 

Majukun

Member
my little adventure in the chasm under the hyrule castle might have changed completely my playthrough...let's just say that i went VERY deep and after resurfacuing now almost all enemies encounters have silver variants..i mean it's good because you get rare materials in abundance, but it bumped back the difficulty from the start of the game
 

daveonezero

Banned
Fuse the things enemies drop (horns, fangs etc) to your weapons. I just finished that temple last night, and didn’t have a single weapon break. I don’t even consider how I play to really be anything but organically exploring the over world, but it’s through defeating the larger enemy types and the things they drop that you can fuse to your weapons that help a lot.
Fangs teeth and claws are meant for bows. Look at the description. They double in fuse attack power when used like this. I basically don’t fire arrows at enemies unless it has a tooth on it.

Horns are your weapons. And yeah with the boss bokinlins or at least the black variants weapons last a long time. Not sure what happened at the boss fight but also appears Fools idol Fools idol didn’t upgrade any weapon slots
 
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Hardensoul

Member
For anyway wanting somewhat easier to upgrade the battery and farm more ore. The sleep trick works for Zonaite vendor restock and Zonaite ore respawn or any ore deposits.
 
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Chastten

Banned
And finished! Don't have all shrines yet, or a full battery or a lot of sidequests, and there's still a ton to mess around with but the story is done! What a journey! Between BotW, AoC and this, I really loved the story they presented. Solid 9/10 game, even if it's obviously not as groundbreaking as BotW was 6 years ago.

Also, messing around with the crafting system and building flying machines of mass destruction really made me want a Xenoblade X remake. Please Nintendo, make that happen!
 

calistan

Member
Useless wind power?

When paragliding, the boost from that power will help a lot to bridge gaps.
I tried that in a few places but his "gust" is about as powerful as a baby's fart. You go further by climbing and jumping.

Just beat the water temple boss, and that was a thoroughly miserable 15 minutes. Killed him first time, he's not massively difficult, but that last stage where his vulnerable form flies across the arena and you have to slop through all that gloop to get one hit on him before he zooms off again. If he'd actually managed to kill me I don't think I could have faced starting over, Link would have been taking a one-way trip to eBay.
 

daveonezero

Banned
I tried that in a few places but his "gust" is about as powerful as a baby's fart. You go further by climbing and jumping.

Just beat the water temple boss, and that was a thoroughly miserable 15 minutes. Killed him first time, he's not massively difficult, but that last stage where his vulnerable form flies across the arena and you have to slop through all that gloop to get one hit on him before he zooms off again. If he'd actually managed to kill me I don't think I could have faced starting over, Link would have been taking a one-way trip to eBay.
I imagine there is a better solution.
 

Danjin44

The nicest person on this forum
In BotW I never got the chance to get white stallion but managed get one in TotK and HOLY F***CK this guy is HUGE, His Ken-Oh's horse level huge.
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I tried that in a few places but his "gust" is about as powerful as a baby's fart. You go further by climbing and jumping.
Well, are you using it on the ground? That's what it sounds like. It is ultra useful not sure how you don't immediately see that. Can close many more gaps, just in general faster movement across the map as a whole. I always have him activated and use it just about constantly if I'm off the ground. Great for reaching more sky islands, exploring depths.. endless use cases. Best power far and away and due to how verticality is reworked, far better than the Gale power in BotW!
 

calistan

Member
Well, are you using it on the ground? That's what it sounds like. It is ultra useful not sure how you don't immediately see that. Can close many more gaps, just in general faster movement across the map as a whole. I always have him activated and use it just about constantly if I'm off the ground. Great for reaching more sky islands, exploring depths.. endless use cases. Best power far and away and due to how verticality is reworked, far better than the Gale power in BotW!
Not on the ground, although I did try to blow some enemies off a cliff but it didn't affect them in the same way a guster weapon does. I haven't found anywhere I can't reach by just climbing a bit higher before jumping off. Maybe if he can gust upwards to give more lift, I might keep him around.
 

KU_

Member
I tried that in a few places but his "gust" is about as powerful as a baby's fart. You go further by climbing and jumping.

Just beat the water temple boss, and that was a thoroughly miserable 15 minutes. Killed him first time, he's not massively difficult, but that last stage where his vulnerable form flies across the arena and you have to slop through all that gloop to get one hit on him before he zooms off again. If he'd actually managed to kill me I don't think I could have faced starting over, Link would have been taking a one-way trip to eBay.
Target lock him and shoot him with an arrow as opposed to chasing him through the goop. It’ll stop him, then go slice him up!
 

calistan

Member
Target lock him and shoot him with an arrow as opposed to chasing him through the goop. It’ll stop him, then go slice him up!
I stopped him with arrows, it was the going and slicing him up afterwards that was a struggle. Sometimes I missed my opportunity through fumbling to select a new bow or sword. Oh well.

I'm generally enjoying the game a lot, I just can't get on with the combat - the controls, the weapons breaking, the constant pausing to scroll through lists of items to attach. Fighting was a strong point in Ocarina of Time and many others, but it doesn't seem to flow very well in this. Even when I see videos of pros doing impressive combat feats there's a ton of messing around in menus.
 

MiguelItUp

Member
Beat it on Friday, love it a great deal. I could've easily have put more time into it, but I think it was a good time to tie it up with DIV and SF6 dropping. I'll probably revisit it some day.

I think I was somewhere around.... 50-60 hours if not almost 70. What's crazy to me is I KNOW there's a ton I didn't see or do. It's wild how the game is so large, and there's so much to do, but you also don't need to do it. It's just there's so much that everyone's experience doesn't go exactly the same. It's wild.
 

daveonezero

Banned
Surely it's down to the game designers to present that solution to me.
Have you tried shield surfing or using splash fruit? I’m not even in the Zora play but know you can wash the mud off.

Or what other said use certain arrows or fuse arrows to do more damage than just hitting him.

In BotW I never got the chance to get white stallion but managed get one in TotK and HOLY F***CK this guy is HUGE, His Ken-Oh's horse level huge.
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The royal white hose is in the game and it isn’t the giant horse.

There are two giant horses in this game.

It’s much better than the gold one.

I wish Links promo horse was special somehow. I’m not going to get an amibo to get Epona.
 
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Nydius

Member
Surely it's down to the game designers to present that solution to me.
They did. Did you skip through the tooltip screen that told you Sidon's shield would fling out a large arc of water if you attacked while you were in the water shield? In the final phase of that fight, I solely used the water shield as a way to clear out the goop after knocking the boss to the ground. Never had an issue getting in close to finish him off.

Eyeball arrow, knockdown boss.
Water shield, attack - clear out goop.
Sprint through cleared area, attack boss.
Collect loots.
 
Just finished tutorial island, disappointed when I found out the temple of time was not a dungeon.

Apart from my weapons always breaking, it’s just as good as botw.
 
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